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AWS – Amazon EC2 announces increases for instance network bandwidth
Amazon EC2 now offers increased instance bandwidth from AWS region to traffic destined towards Internet Gateway, Direct Connect and between regions for the current generation of instances. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Amplify announces command hooks to execute custom scripts when running Amplify CLI commands
With today’s launch, customers can execute custom scripts before, during, and after Amplify CLI commands (“amplify push”, “amplify api gql-compile”, and more). This allows you to extend Amplify’s best-practice defaults to meet your organization’s specific security guidelines and operational requirements. AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend web and mobile developers […]

AWS – Ability to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses now available in additional regions for Virtual Private Cloud customers
Starting today, the ability to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses for Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) is available in 16 additional regions. These AWS Regions are US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights and AWS Systems Manager Application Manager combine to offer an integrated application management experience
Manage and monitor your applications on AWS seamlessly and easily with new service integrations for AWS Systems Manager Application Manager and CloudWatch Application Insights. AWS Systems Manager Application Manager is a service in AWS Systems Manager which brings together operations information from multiple AWS services so customers can investigate and remediate issues. CloudWatch Application Insights […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, and Fedora 34
Amazon EC2 now supports Hibernation for On-Demand Nitro-based instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8, CentOS version 8, and Fedora version 34 onwards. Hibernation allows you to pause your EC2 Instances and resume them at a later time, rather than fully terminating and restarting them. Resuming your instance lets your applications continue from […]

Azure – Zone redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage now generally available
Now generally available in West Europe, North Europe, West US 2, and France Central, Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage protects disks from zonal failures which may occur due to natural disasters or hardware issues. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces enhancements to the AWS Marketplace Consulting Partner Private Offer self-service experience.
Today, AWS Marketplace announced a new feature the enables Consulting Partners the ability to easily view and create offers from Independent Software Vendors’ (ISV) resell authorization opportunities in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). With this launch, Consulting Partners can now review all resell Opportunities ISVs have granted them, and quickly create a Consulting Partner Private […]

Azure – Apache Spark 3.1 for Azure Synapse Analytics now generally available
The latest version of the open-source Apache Spark is now available in Azure Synapse Analytics Apache Spark pools. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Cloud Map now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Cloud Map is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – To the cloud and beyond! Migration Enablement with Google Cloud’s Professional Services Organization
Google Cloud’s Professional Services Organization (PSO) engages with customers to ensure effective and efficient operations in the cloud, from the time they begin considering how cloud can help them overcome their operational, business or technical challenges, to the time they’re looking to optimize their cloud workloads. We know that all parts of the cloud journey […]